CPSC 424/624 Course Information Section 1
Systems Administration and Security

Syllabus

Handouts

• Unix Handout
  
• vi Handout
  
• Using a DOS Floppy Disk to Transfer Files
  
• Unix Information Handouts
• DCIT documents on Unix and vi
• handin handout

Extra Info

• Network Calculation Example

Assignments

• Assignment #1 ()     Answers
• Assignment #2 ()     Answers
• Assignment #3 ()     Answers
• Assignment #4 ()     Answers

Projects

• Project #1 ()     My solution     Another example     Another example     Another example
• Project #2 ()
• Project #3 ()

Lectures

• Lecture 1 () - Definitions & terms
• Lecture 2 () - man pages, websites, & booting
• Lecture 3 () - Booting & shutting down
• Lecture 4 () - Root
• Lecture 5 () - Processes
• Lecture 6 () - Filesystems
• Lecture 7 () - Adding Users
• Lecture 8 () - Adding disks
• Lecture 9 () - Periodic processes
• Lecture 10 () - WWW & Security
• Lecture 11 () - Backups
• Lecture 12 () - Syslog
• Lecture 13 () - Drivers and the Kernel
• MIDTERM EXAM -
• Lecture 14 () - TCP/IP
• Lecture 15 () - Networking Hardware
• Lecture 16 () - DNS
• Lecture 17 () - NFS
• Lecture 18 () - NIS & friends
• Lecture 19 () - electronic mail
• Lecture 20 () - Network Management
• Lecture 21 () - Security - tools, practices, etc.
• Lecture 22 () - Security - what to do WHEN it fails

Exams